Virginia Democrats, who control the governorship and both chambers of the legislature, want to insert a ‘right to personal reproductive autonomy’ in the state constitution and also end the state’s parental consent and ultrasound laws.
By Claire Chretien, LifeSiteNews, Jan 10, 2020
RICHMOND, Virginia, January 10, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – A Virginia Democrat has introduced a resolution to enshrine “the individual right to personal reproductive autonomy” in the commonwealth’s Constitution, as well as a bill to repeal several moderately pro-life laws.
The Democrat-controlled legislature is also pushing forward the so-called Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), which would enshrine abortion and the elimination of sex distinctions into the U.S. Constitution. Legal experts – and now the U.S. Department of Justice – say votes decades ago to ratify the failed 1972 constitutional amendment have expired, but leftists are attempting to revive it anyway.
Virginia Senate Majority Leader Richard Saslaw introduced both pro-abortion measures and resurrected the ERA.
That an individual’s right to personal reproductive autonomy is central to the enjoyment of life and liberty and shall not be denied or infringed upon unless justified by a compelling interest of the Commonwealth and achieved by the least restrictive means. ….
